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hide and seek: the workingman’s burden
Does it pay never to work a day in the life? Save no money. Have no marketable assets. Yes and no. It does depend on the lifestyle one is accustomed to. It would be pushing “voluntary simplicity” to an extreme … Continue reading
like a brick in their pocket : and now What? …
Why not strive for fame. “The Bitter Ones” say its a need to be envied and that going “viral”- a term which is in itself a euphemism for something that doesn’t exist, is virtual, and has no real meaning- is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brent Hartinger, Britney Spears, Casey Affleck, Chaplin, Cintra Wilson, Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, James Agee, Joaquin Pheonix, John Cameron Mitchell, Leah McClaren, Martin A. Gardner, Matthew Brady, Michel Houellebecq, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, The Marx Brothers, Tom Gunning
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BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES
Charlie Chaplin represented a vision of laughter, of comedy, that tore away at the veil, a social burka fitted over its explosive and unpredictable composition.A contrast of fast nickelodeons and the slow dimes of higher culture. He enabled a reconnection … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Bakhtin, Bergson, Brecht, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, David Trotter, Fernand Leger, Film history, Frederic Jameson, Freud, James Agee, Neil Simon, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul, Woody Allen
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STRANGE AFFINITY
More than half a decade before Chaplin was to ridicule Hitler’s spectacle of charismatic greatness in the Great Dictator, Walter Benjamin already emphasized the strange affinity between the comedian and the politician. Accordingly, Hitler and Chaplin appear as products of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dog's Life, Ballet mecanique, Benjamin, Beowulf, Cain and Abel, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Fernand Leger, Grendel, John Gardner, Michael Leonard, The Circus, The Great Dictator, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul
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MYSTERY BEYOND THE GOLD RUSH
When one writes about Chaplin, discussion of a ”best” work inevitably results in his most ardent supporters agreeing to disagree in choosing his best feature length work or short film. Less contentious is the selection of a favorite example to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Chaplin, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Georgia Hale, Koestler, Mack Swain, Martin Buber, Maurice S. Friedman, The Eureka Process, The Gold Rush, Tom Gunning
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Maginot Line of Laugh Resistance
A hyperactivity bordering on cartoon animation. Excessive bad faith.Spontaneous fits of anger , excitability, impatience and crankiness bordering on the absurd. French actor Louis de Funes was undoubtedly the French King of Comedy in the 60-70’s and created a cinematic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Louis de Funes, Mark Jenkins, Modern Times, Rabbi Jacob
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Ambiguities of Modernist Ecstasy
”…the one who comes walking is Chaplin who brushes against the world like a slow meteor even when he seems to be at rest; The imaginary landscape that he brings along is the meteor’s aura which gathers here in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Adorno, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, George Orwell, Mark Jenkins, Monsieur Verdoux, Theodor Adorno
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Disenchanted With the Jargon of Laughter
… a false sense of liberation masking blind conformity to a cruel social order. That in sum is the view of the comedic arts from Theodore Adorno (1903-1969), philosopher, musicologist and culture expert. These arts fell into what Adorno termed … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Mark Jenkins, Theodor Adorno
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